Curtain-fixture.



. No. 703,955. Patented luly l, I902. E. FLICEK.

CURTAIN FIXTURE. (Application fi1ed.Ma.y 2a 1901.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE;

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 703,955, dated July 1, 1902.

I Application filed May 23, 1901. Serial No. 61,491. (No model.)

To aZZ 1072,0121l it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD FLIoEK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a device for draping or adj ustably supporting the lower free ends of window or door curtains, whereby the samemay be looped up and supported'at a greater or less height above the floor or at a greater or less distance from the window or door frame.

The construction of my invention is explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in Which-'- Figure 1 represents a front view of a window provided with curtains and my curtainsupporting mechanism. Fig. 2 l is a detail showing one of the curtain-supporting devices removed from theWindow-frame. Fig. 3 represents a modifiedform of the-support ing-bracket, which is used for the vertical adjustment only.

Like parts are identified by the same reference-letters throughout the several views.

The curtains A A are suspended fromthe top of the window-frame B in the ordinary manner. To the respective sides of the window-frame are attached the"curtain-supporting brackets O and D by screws or nails, as indicated in Fig. 1. The brackets O and D are provided with adjustable curtain-supporting hooks E, which hooks are made of elastic material and are so constructed that the arms G G are adapted when released from pressure to spring apart and impinge upon the rods H of the brackets, whereby they are adapted to remain at any point of adjustment.

When desirous to adjust the hooks E u pwardly or downwardly, it is necessary simply to press the arms G G toward each other,

whereby they are free to move upwardly and downwardly. In the preferred form'of supporting-hook E (shown in Fig. 2) the arms G G are bent at nearly right angles to the supporting-rod H, forming hand-bearings I I, by which they are more readily compressed when in the act of adjusting them.

In the form shown upon the left in Fig. 1 the bracket 0 is provided at its upper end with an angular bend J in addition to the bends M M, by which as the supportinghook E is raised it is also carried toward the left and farther away from the window-casing, as may in some casesrbe desired, while in the form of bracket shown upon the right .both its upper and lower=end are secured at the same'distance from the Window-frame.

The brackets C and D are provided at their ends with loops or eyes K for the reception of retaining-screws, while the arms GGof'the supporting-hook are also provided with loops or apertures LLfor the reception of said brack ets. In the form shown the supporting brackets and hooks are made of wire'bent into the desired shape; but it is obvious that the same may, if desired, be struck up from sheet metal withoutdeparting fromthe spirit of my invention. It'is also obvious that while I have shown my device supported from window-frames it. is equally adapted to be used in connection with doorframes or any other place where it is desired to drape or support curtains.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In adevice for draping the lower ends of curtains, the combination with the side of a supporting-frame; of a supporting-bracket rod; a hook formed with forked shank-arms of elastic material and provided with bracketreceiving apertures therein; said arms being adapted to spread sufficiently when in normal position to cause the bracket-rod to bind in said apertures.

2. The combination of a curtain-supporting frame; an angular bracket connected with said frame; a slidable hook supported on said bracket; having means for automatically locking said hook at any desired point of adj ustment upon said bracket, said hook being adapted, by the angular shape of its supporting-bracket, to be adjusted nearer to, or farther away from, said curtain -supporting frame, substantially as specified.

3. In a device for draping the lower ends of curtains, the combination with the side of a supporting-frame; of a supporting-bracket the looped ends of the wire to bind on the rod; a curtain-holding device formed of a bracket-rod. 10 piece of resilient wire doubled upon itself and In testimony whereof I affix my signature bent in the form of a, hook, with the free ends in the presence of two witnesses.

extending divergently to form a forked shank, EDWARD FLIOEK. and looped to form end apertures for the in- Witnesses: sertion of the bracket-rod; said shank ends J As. B. ERWIN,

being normally separated sufficiently to cause EMIL F. BUERGERMEISTER. 

